Category: Digital Content
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AO.com (Product Review)
Looking at eCommerce sites helps me to learn more about effective User Experience design and user journeys. I recently looked at AO.com, a UK website specialised in selling white goods. Fig. 1 – Screenshots of the homepage of AO.com Fig. 2 – Different ways to discover fridges on AO.com Way 1 – Via top level…
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Meerkat (Product Review)
The other day is saw a discussion about whether Meerkat will or won’t last. Meerkat is a simple video app which lets people stream live to their Twitters. It launched about two weeks ago and has been talked about (and used) a lot since. Let’s do a quick review of the app: Main learning point: It…
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App review: OpenTable
“The UK’s number one restaurant booking website” is what it says on OpenTable’s homepage. One of the reasons why I was keen to find out more about OpenTable is the fact that it serves two types of customers since its connects restaurateurs with customers. This is a similar mechanism which Carwow specialises in, a website which…
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Site review: Carwow
“Be a happy car buyer” is what it says on the homepage of http://www.carwow.co.uk/. The promise here is that people will “Experience new car buying without any of the hassle or uncertainty”. Carwow’s proposition is effectively a reverse marketplace; enabling users to specify the car that they would like to buy and attracting offers based on their specifications. Once…
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The importance of digital product pages
In an online retail course which I did recently, its instructor Ian Jindal talked about the importance of retailers getting their product pages right, making sure these pages are relevant to the consumer. Even though consumers don’t think in terms of traditional sales funnels, and might use a variety of sources to come to a purchase decision,…
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